Please tell me I am not the only housewife who has been lugging around a box of baseball cards from house to house over the past two decades. Seriously. I am not joking when I tell you that the HH’s mother mailed him the box of paper nearly 20 years ago and just this morning I FINALLY convinced my husband to get rid of the box.
Monkey Boy and The Girl got wind of my idea to get rid of the cards and decided to try and sort through them. I tried to reason with them saying, “Trust me, if there is a valuable card in there Pops would know about it.”
1 hour and 24 Ebay searches later they finally agreed. The most valuable card they found was $2.
Getting rid of junk. It feels so good. Even when it takes 20 years to do so.
~Mavis
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Julie says
OMG I wish my husband could do the same!! Including thousands of Magic cards!! His excuse is that the cards may cost more in a few years…
Lisa says
Awesome!! My husband needs to do the same thing!! Except w his stuffed animals … Seriously?! What good are they doing except taking up valuable space in our home?!?
Tammy says
This gives me hope. 😉 We’ve been married 16 years, and a few years back my husband sold about 5 or 6 large storage boxes (somewhere around 4000 to 5000 cards) but he still has the “special” cards in plastic sleeves in binders and THOSE moved with us recently. He probably has about 1000 cards still. Oh well…at least he isn’t buying cards these days. That would be sad. 😉
Jessica says
Yeah we have thousands of Magic cards as well. I must say, though, now that our kids are older they have started to play and think it is pretty cool that their dad plays with 20+ year old cards….so unfortunately they are staying…argh!
Jennifer says
We have moved the same box of sports cards to 5 houses! This gives me hope.
Julia says
Yes, we’ve had my husbands baseball cards with us for 22 years. Although last year our son discovered them and father and son have had some fun going through them together. It’s only 3 shoeboxes full so not much space to worry about. Maybe your hubby could frame a few just for the memories?
Linda says
My husband collects EVERTHING! He has 3 large boxes of posters that we store in a corner behind the china cabinet. I asked him (again) just this weekend if he might be ready to eBay those treasures. I would love to know how to coax him into getting rid of them!!
Katy says
I have multiple boxes of Desert Storm cards. Why? I DON’T KNOW! Time to reevaluate 🙂 However, I will be keeping my garbage pail kids cards, and if anyone has any I would be very happy to take them off your hands!
erin says
Yes we have all my husband’s garbage pail kids cards. Our kids think their creepy but love looking through them. They don’t make cook stuff like that anymore.
Kay says
With my husband it was comic books. They were in big, long, heavy boxes and there were at least 5 of them. We had lugged those dumb things from place to place, 3 states, 6 apartments, and 2 homes. Finally, 24 years into our marriage, he agreed to get rid of them. After doing some research he was able to sell them for enough to buy a pretty darn nice used work car!
Mavis Butterfield says
That’s AWESOME.
Deb k says
I think most of us have a few things from our youth that we put away and saved. To someone else it may look as though it is garbage or junk but for us they are treasures that connect us to other times.
erin says
My problem is that I have a brother who never had kids who wants to hand his baseball cards down to my son (who hates baseball by the way). Then I have a grandma who insists my husband makes a huge shelf for our daughters room so she can pass down all her QVC Marie Osmond dolls. I hate junk and clutter!!!
Angela says
This cracked me up because YES this is my life. I think we’ll have the purple tote full of sports cards until we die.
Donna in VA says
Too funny. I should go home and roll all of the old (1950 or earlier) pennies I have been saving. I really don’t think any of them are worth more than a dime.
Lilypad says
You are a lucky woman. I’m still trying to get my husband to sell his record collection. We have moved heavy boxes of records 11 times in 22 years. I know that some of them really are valuable to him for sentimental reasons, and I’d be okay if he kept a few. Others are valuable in the Ebay sense and I’d like to sell them and get them out of here. He always said they’d pay for our son’s college education but then he hasn’t sold any in the last several years. He did sell some 5 – 10 years ago and made several hundred dollars which was desperately needed at the time. I have only a few “nostalgia” boxes of my own, and they are lightweight because it’s mostly paper, cards etc. Sigh.